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We are far from being able to understand under what conditions or how and exactly when memories are laid down. If Grandpa died on Christmas Day or Dad left Mom just before Thanksgiving of 1965, at the very time that memory was being inscribed, there was likely no conscious perception that a lifelong mnemic trace was being etched into the Psyche that was to follow that person throughout life.
So, what of the memories that are etched into our minds about and during a psychoanalytic treatment? More than a hundred years ago, people came from the United States and from Russia and from Western Europe to be analyzed by—as his patient H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) called Freud—The Master. Psychiatrists and others seeking to train in psychoanalysis, and poets, and writers and religious folk sought him out and Freud allocated to them usually some brief months to work out their difficulties and to learn of the workings of the Unconscious Mind, of das Unbewusste. Freud's office at Berggasse 19, it must be noted, was not the only destination; after all, hundreds of people came to be healed by the likes of the hypnotist, Emile Coue and other mystics in the frightening reorganizations of fin de siècle Europe with its unification of principalities into Nation States and shifting national boundaries. Some who came to see Freud had to settle for Abraham, Ferenczi or any one of Freud's other faithful students. Immanuel Velikovsky was told by Freud (personal conversation) that he had no time for him and he'd have to settle for Stekel. Perhaps, this is no different than in the Academy when only certain especially gifted candidates are anointed with the securing of a giant to chair their doctoral committee, while others must, as we say, settle. Still, come they did and some of them left records of their memories in working with Freud.
In the century since Freud's last published case history, many analysts with an interest in both history and the understanding of the development of theories of cli